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THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM

THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BY BOETHIUS 1484 RARE INCUNABULUM

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[BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (ca. 480-ca. 524)]. De Consolatione Philosophiae. Commentary by Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas. Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 1484.

Leather-bound; hardcover (contained in velvet-lined clamshell case with gilt titles to spine); median folio (280 x 200 x 45 mm); 196 leaves; collation: a-z8 ɿ6 ɘ6 (a1, ɘ6 blank). Latin text spaced to 41 lines per page, commentary and preface attributed to Thomas Aquinas, tables in two columns, rubricated throughout. Title from caption, b1 recto. Colophon, ɿ5 verso: Libri quinq[ue] de co[n]solatione ph[ilosoph]ie Boecii Rhomani con-sulis ac oratoris sple[n]didissimi vna cum [com]me[n]taria editione: per me Ioha[n]ne[m] de Westfalia in alma Louanie[n]si vniuersita-te dilige[n]ter elaborati Expliciu[n]t. Anno gratie Millesimoqua-dringe[n]tesimooctuagesimoquarto.:. Bound in early mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments; red dyed page edges; marbled endpapers. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Joints cracked but holding well, the corners and spine ends slightly rubbed. Interior very well-preserved with some light toning, one or two marginal notes and spots, old inking to a8 verso. Scarce.

Notes: Considered by Gibbon a "golden" book, the Consolation of Philosophy was a chief source of Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy in the middle ages. From the Carolingian period to the late Middle Ages it was the most widely copied work of secular literature in Europe. Written in prose and verse while Boethius was in prison at Pavia on charges of treachery, it is a dialogue between Boethius and Philosophy, who has come to console the author in his autobiographical desolation. After helping Boethius understand himself, his good fortune and his misfortune, and free will, Philosophy leads him to true happiness, which is knowledge of God. The Consolation of Philosophy incorporates large parts of Plato's Timaeus.

This is an excellent copy of a rare edition. ISTC ib00778000; GW 4534; Goff B778; BMC IX 142 (IB. 49172); Bod-inc B-395; CIBN B-568; Campbell, 307 = 308; Hain-Copinger, 3377; Oates, 3714; Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 729; Thienen & Goldfinch. Incunabula printed in the Low Countries, 415.

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